Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), August 2, 1978, R9

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Real Estate Show Place Aug 2 1978 9 Wellinsulated home burns 20 less fuel By Peter The feeling of warmth you get when you hour house may come not only from the fact that you are cutting up to per cent off your fuel II but you are saving precious natural resources as well you may well be about claim that are made for fuel savings through insulation I believed a only after doing a thorough insulating job on your own year old four bedroom house Fuel consumption dropped almost per cent over two years I attribute per cent of that decline Genera financial advice by members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants to the insulation In fair the remainder re nulled from one member of family leaving home The insulating methods we used were chosen with comfort more than cost in mind For wc put in triple glazed thermal windows to replace double sliding glass windows It is doubtful that we will recover our costs through the savings in fuel for a few years but the day comes every time fuel go up Our guide to insulating was the federal Cavern publication Keep In by the federal Department of Energy Mines and Resources It contains downs of tips on how to insulate in walls attics roofs and around doors and windows as well as how to hire a contractor or how to do the job yourself In our case we decided to hire a contractor and concentrate on blowing insulation into walls insulating the attic which already tad some insul and replacing the double sliding glass windows with scaled We had kept records of our gas consumption for several years and in a three year period covering the October April homo healing season from we used an average of cubic feet of gas each Last winter following the insulation job which was staged over a two year period our consumption wan only 110 cubic feel And that as during a winter that the gas company said was much colder than usual Precisely our fuel saving over the three year overage was 73 per cent although I so d our daughter a departure for a place of her own might have accounted for about one fifth of that Mr In Hamilton stately Cattle Is billed as Canada largest restored Victorian mansion Visitors will delight in Continued from unusual gift to the the skull of Cornel us A Burleigh victim of the first hanging in London load banned he first broke But Eldon Burleigh was ice because on tempi the rope perfect rest oration both upstairs on downstair while discovering the toot side of Ontario a history Ctatfc It s the statement of a fam that figured prom Canadian life from Canada very Forn c information House and a host of other interesting places to visit in Ontario contact Ontario Travel Queen Park Toronto Ontario F in ma floor I OWNED MUST SELL Lot For Salo Boout aero lot on Boll School Lino south of Darrv Ask rig For a good selection of homes in and around Milton call STAN THOMPSON Real Estate Broker 8782455

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